This week in research #31

Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week (a fairly quiet week on the whole):

• Candelon, Joëts, and Mignon (with ungated earlier version here) find that high topic connectivity augmented by robust social connectivity among authors or authoring teams enhance the diffusion of econometric ideas, based on a sample of 17,260 research papers in econometrics over the period 1980-2020
• Vella (open access) conducts a meta-analysis of studies linking the Big Five personality traits to earnings, and finds that openness to experience, conscientiousness, and extraversion exhibit positive correlations with earnings, whereas agreeableness and neuroticism are inversely correlated with earnings (no surprises in those results, I think)